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Why Your Dayjob Is Bullshit

 
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Why Your Dayjob Is Bullshit
Sounds like they're "preaching to the choir" on this one:

VICE: What's the problem with people's jobs, then?

David Graeber: People on the street will tell you that they don't really "do" anything in their jobs. In the past 50 years, large firms have begun employing thousands of people in "made-to-work jobs," but you go into these environments and all people do is complain about their work.

This sounds weirdly inefficient, though.
It's precisely what a capitalist society should not do. It feels like someone is out there making up these jobs to keep us employed.

What's a "made-to-work job"?
Between 1910 and 2000, clerical administrative work has gone through the roof—it's something insane like 25 percent to 75 percent of total employment. Bureaucrats, middle management, and pen pushers—these people have nothing to do. When John Maynard Keynes predicted the 15-hour working week back in the 1930s, he didn't really perceive that people would spend 15 hours a week working and a subsequent 35 bunking off.

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lolol
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i am a tradesman. i dont work a fake shitty office job. i actually provide a service for an honest price. you know, that thing that was the foundation of our capitalist societies once a long time ago...
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I've been a tattoo artist for 20 years and have enjoyed every minute of it. I dress how I want, act how I want, and work when I want. I enjoy the clients I have and have had the privilege of working in 12 states, 18 countries over 5 continents. I've been able to take time for myself to learn 5 languages and earn 4 degrees in college. I've enjoyed almost all the major nationalities of women usually half my age being absolutely beautiful and intelligent to boot. I smoke pot when I want and drink when I feel like...even if it means taking the day off of work to enjoy it. None of my furniture is pointed at a television as I do not partake, instead I read and have a bountiful library. What poor souls would live such an Orwellian lifestyle except for the ones duped into believing the drivel only TV and celebrities teach you? What troglodytes would pursuit such a lifestyle save the ones who's pursuits could be found with something as useless as money alone? Find what you desire most and you will be the product of that. Your happiness will be the measure of success, not the material possessions you fool-heartedly sought after in place of personal gains.
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what does your user name mean?
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Between 1910 and 2000, clerical administrative work has gone through the roof—it's something insane like 25 percent to 75 percent of total employment.
 Quoting: synchro


I really have to question this.

Rather large spread, there.
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Between 1910 and 2000, clerical administrative work has gone through the roof—it's something insane like 25 percent to 75 percent of total employment.
 Quoting: synchro


I really have to question this.

Rather large spread, there.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17487177


Yes, between 1910 and 2000, I definitely believe that -- but what about since 2000? I was an office manager for years before I retired and almost all my friends had administrative assistant type jobs. Now, I know NO ONE who holds that kind of position. Because almost everyone in the U.S. over the age of five now knows how to type at least a little, thanks to computers, I wonder what the percentage of clerical type jobs is NOW.
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i am a tradesman. i dont work a fake shitty office job. i actually provide a service for an honest price. you know, that thing that was the foundation of our capitalist societies once a long time ago...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 67731963


how tea breaks do you take per day and for how long?
Warning: JustSomeGuy_42 is a publicly confessed unvaxxed neophiliac .

If the number 666 is considered evil.
then technically, 25.8069758 is the root
of all evil.
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 Quoting: synchro


 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17487177


… Because almost everyone in the U.S. over the age of five now knows how to type at least a little, thanks to computers, I wonder what the percentage of clerical type jobs is NOW.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 56009434


hunt & pecking is a far cry from 90 wpm

Last Edited by JustSomeGuy_42 on 02/10/2015 06:48 PM
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If the number 666 is considered evil.
then technically, 25.8069758 is the root
of all evil.
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what does your user name mean?
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synchro?

It's taken from when I used to achieve SMPTE lock while synchronizing audio to picture while scoring a TV show, film, etc.

Nowadays SMPTE is not really required unless the source material has been especially "striped" with audio SMPTE code...
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I've been a tattoo artist for .… Your happiness will be the measure of success, not the material possessions you fool-heartedly sought after in place of personal gains.
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Another pot smoking artist who is soooooomuch better than anyone else, who has no furniture facing the tv, but is bragging on his/her superiority on a computer in a conspiracy site.

Go read a book out of your vast library and leave us mere mortals to soak in our misery.
Warning: JustSomeGuy_42 is a publicly confessed unvaxxed neophiliac .

If the number 666 is considered evil.
then technically, 25.8069758 is the root
of all evil.
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I've been a tattoo artist for .… Your happiness will be the measure of success, not the material possessions you fool-heartedly sought after in place of personal gains.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46816843



Another pot smoking artist who is soooooomuch better than anyone else, who has no furniture facing the tv, but is bragging on his/her superiority on a computer in a conspiracy site.

Go read a book out of your vast library and leave us mere mortals to soak in our misery.
 Quoting: Wookiee666


You know I was thinking exactly the same thing.....

but couldn't come up with a single word to express it.

Damn smart - and in just two sentences! Hoot!rockon
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I've been a tattoo artist for 20 years and have enjoyed every minute of it. I dress how I want, act how I want, and work when I want. I enjoy the clients I have and have had the privilege of working in 12 states, 18 countries over 5 continents. I've been able to take time for myself to learn 5 languages and earn 4 degrees in college. I've enjoyed almost all the major nationalities of women usually half my age being absolutely beautiful and intelligent to boot. I smoke pot when I want and drink when I feel like...even if it means taking the day off of work to enjoy it. None of my furniture is pointed at a television as I do not partake, instead I read and have a bountiful library. What poor souls would live such an Orwellian lifestyle except for the ones duped into believing the drivel only TV and celebrities teach you? What troglodytes would pursuit such a lifestyle save the ones who's pursuits could be found with something as useless as money alone? Find what you desire most and you will be the product of that. Your happiness will be the measure of success, not the material possessions you fool-heartedly sought after in place of personal gains.
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cool story, bro
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I've been a tattoo artist for 20 years and have enjoyed every minute of it. I dress how I want, act how I want, and work when I want. I enjoy the clients I have and have had the privilege of working in 12 states, 18 countries over 5 continents. I've been able to take time for myself to learn 5 languages and earn 4 degrees in college. I've enjoyed almost all the major nationalities of women usually half my age being absolutely beautiful and intelligent to boot. I smoke pot when I want and drink when I feel like...even if it means taking the day off of work to enjoy it. None of my furniture is pointed at a television as I do not partake, instead I read and have a bountiful library. What poor souls would live such an Orwellian lifestyle except for the ones duped into believing the drivel only TV and celebrities teach you? What troglodytes would pursuit such a lifestyle save the ones who's pursuits could be found with something as useless as money alone? Find what you desire most and you will be the product of that. Your happiness will be the measure of success, not the material possessions you fool-heartedly sought after in place of personal gains.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46816843


What smart people will tell you about your post is that nobody makes it out of life alive so your "accomplishments" will hold no more eternal weight than a billionaire or a hobo and everyone in between.

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